Inside Army Boot Camp: Basic Combat Training at Fort Jackson

[@whit0821]

My son just arrived this morning, Jan 8, 25. So excited for him.

[@PaoloMiller-ow3vf]

Good shit

[@sammistoner]

My husband got here yesterday. Watching so i can see what kind of stuff hes up too.. missing him tons ❤

[@sammistoner]

23:07 I CANT WAIT 😭🥹 I'm gonna be screaming and jumping and hollering like a fool 😭❤️😭❤️😭

[@johngrantham5508]

Great memories ! I did Fitness and bootcamp there. Fitness where I got physically fitted thru training From November 1988 to January 1989 and Bootcamp from January 1989 to March 1989. I loved my experience there.

[@AmericanLegion1776]

Im going to basic at Fort Jackson on January 13th, this video helped a lot.

[@bismarck6786]

Yo man me too fort Jackson Jan 13 see you there

[@AmericanLegion1776]

@bismarck6786 See you there my friend!

[@BigMac8008]

I just graduated on Dec. 19th. Worst part of Fort Jackson is reception. Reception is like pre-basic. It’s where all the shitty drill sergeants get sent to live out the remainder of their assignment. They interact with you just enough to give you a basic understanding of what will be expected of you in BCT… and some just like to shoot the shit with trainees (there’s one DS there, I think in C Co, who’s definitely into the female trainees). You’re going to be standing a fuck-ton in reception. Like, literally all you do is stand in lines… all day. And any moments you have to sit down are gonna be spent fighting sleep. Everyone is so sleep deprived after a couple days, it becomes comical.

[@AmericanLegion1776]

@BigMac8008 Ah so the worst comes first.

[@reganpierce7836]

Yo! I’m headed there on the 13th too!! See you there!

[@panelvixen]

Times have changed. When I went through Basic most drill sergeants had combat patches. Now I rarely see them.

[@elgallo512]

A lot of the drills at 3-39 have CIBs

[@TannerGlattli]

Tbh, they are at a non combat mos BCT

[@doom4067]

I went before everyone started deploying left and right

[@johngrantham5508]

God bless the US Military.

[@mauricecole1196]

When I had basic training, our haircuts were 4 strokes 1,2,3,4 'NEXT' the gas chamber we had a large tree out back 90% of us hit that tree, our instructors, were laughing. we didn't train with females in 1982, we only saw females at KP. In my platoon I was a road guard, we didn't have buses it was old fashioned 'CATTLE CARS', we marched everywhere 'CATTLE CARS' was a treat.

[@SH-sg8or]

Was there Sept 1989. Was missing my girl really bad through that time I was at Jackson. Went to fort Gordon for AIT afterwards. Ended up on Ft Bragg and in the Desert for Gulf War not long after that. Seems like a 100 years ago.

[@Faye_Salavea44]

My son is over there he has a month more to go. I miss him so much. Watching this video has made my heart feel at ease n to know what’s really going on 🥹 #goarmy

[@matthewskudzienski888]

I’m going to Join The United States Army at Fort Jackson SC, USA after 2 years in College in Waterbury, Connecticut, USA

[@valiant7999]

from an SC native, Welcome to South Carolina!

[@sssp3071]

BCT at Ft Dix, NJ 1982, The Drill Sergeants put the recruit with the longest hair at the front of the haircut line. This genius showed up at Basic with hair half way down his back. The barber started the haircut and the Drills started yelling that it was taking too long to cut that long hair. When the barber had just the left side of this kid's hair cut off, the Drills yanked him out of the chair and sent him to the back of the line. It was hilarious, and we couldn't even laugh without getting smoked.

[@macjeez1450]

Went through BT at Ft. Jackson in 1965. No mercy from Drill Sergeants. You screwed up your ass got chewed out. No mercy because they knew that Vietnam was right around the corner for many including myself. Glad they have us hell.

[@aknadiri2520]

Cant wait to go!

[@Smurf__619]

I’m going to fort Jackson in a month for basic.. Dec 30 2024

[@wishbone9137]

Let me know how it goes bro!

[@davidcausey72]

I'm leaving to fort Jackson tomorrow 🤞🤞🤞

[@wishbone9137]

@@davidcausey72 wait are you serious?

[@davidcausey72]

Yup​@@wishbone9137

[@davidcausey72]

@@wishbone9137 yup 😅

[@arthurleywin1244]

Going to Basic at Ft. Jackson on Jan.27, 2025. That's 2 days from now, kinda nervous but very excited😅

[@RichardMctere]

This bootcamp looks so relaxed . It reminds me of a Navy or Airforce bootcamp. When I went to Army bootcamp back in 83 it was nothing like this they were screaming and yelling at us 24-7 plus we were down doing pushups ,flutter kicks grass drills or some type of exercise .This looks like a boys scout camp . What a joke.Plus I heard they give recruits something called a stress card so if the Drill Sergent is being to hard on you poor baby you can pull out that stress card and the instructor will back off .I also heard they can only make a recruit drop down for push ups 10 or 20 at a time .Wow the Army has really gotten soft .

[@teemonigan5511]

The stress card is false

[@malabarspyder]

the look like marine CAPS? Jarheads? I've always considered the day I left boot camp (Ft Jackson) I was i the best shape of my life.. To this day like 50 years later I wanna get BACK to that shape! It felt like they were starving us but I went from 145lb to 165.. To this day I remember that GAS exercise my first terror experience! Family Day sucked for me everyone else had family there..

[@1stscarrizales]

Them new buildings have it all. My drills were all combat arms, but no combatives were taught and wasn’t strict at all. They taught us how the actual army is, while repeating the fact that we were POGs and the God loves the infantry. We had rusted pull-up bars, ran on the street and did our ACFT on a grass field. And our dfac had mold on the walls. Same with our bays and CTAs. Never going back to Jackson lmao

[@1stscarrizales]

And an indoor graduation??? Crazy

[@quann4x269]

I will be leaving for FT. Jackson Feb 11th 2025 Thanks for this video.

[@gawusi]

See you there

[@austinhughes3932]

4/7/25 for me, basically around when you graduate I’ll be walking through the door to be next

[@kimberlymooremoore1580]

My son arrived on1/20/25… missing him like crazy. I came here to see what he’s probably up to… this no contact got me in a chokehold 😢🙏🏽

[@PaoloMiller-ow3vf]

It’s okay he might be having a blast and if not it’s all good ur son becoming a man

[@christopherneyfeldt4587]

I did BCT at Ft.Dix,NJ in November 1984. It was about 2 hours from my house. So it was a drag being so close to home and couldn’t go to the house.

[@doom4067]

How did they get so much hair back by the time they were on the bus to basic? Did they get stuck at reception for a month?

[@centauria9122]

I've gone to Army BCT more than over a year ago in Ft. Leonardwood, MO, did a lot like what was on the video, except for the hand to hand combat we did not do. Every night before hygiene and lights out, we would get night night bars (calcium bars, either cherry tart, chocolate, or caramel sea salt). 😊

[@PaolaHughett]

Going to ft Jackson february 4th 2025

[@somebody7937]

I’m going February 18th, 2025

[@gawusi]

See you all

[@thatonegearguy]

I was in the MC, but it's cool to see a video on the Army's training.

[@SuperFriday]

They should do a Fort Sill version

[@TankerBankerESU]

Sounds like jacksons more of a treat than what benning is about to put me through, only 3 weeks due to the delayed trainee program, then straight to georgia but still looks alot more eased

[@TannerGlattli]

Well you are going to a Combat MOS BCT

[@TankerBankerESU]

@TannerGlattli i mean surely of it, i was expecting benning right off but they want me to do 09M's dumb program because of my asvabs AFQT which was a 23 despite it was better scores than my 37 i did before it, i dont know how that shit works but it is what it is

[@JaredWoodward-z8e]

This is funny that the barber is actually being nice when I went through he cussed us out and cut my battle buddies mole off and didn’t even care that he was bleeding

[@iraeaglemind]

I do not like the green uniforms at all.The uniforms they are graduating in if not mistaken are from the 40s.Super cool!

[@dagmont4605]

Wow, this is pathetic. When I went to basic, we literally got beaten and thrown the second we were off the bus

[@treadhead]

TO *** A L L BROTHERS & SISTERS ( ALL. BRANCHES ) WHO TOOK. OUR OATHS OF ENLISTMENT TO SUPPORT & DEFEND : PAST , PRESENT & FUTURE ---- THANK. YOU ALL & REMEMBER : ARMOR RULES !!!!! U.S.A. " THIS WE'LL DEFEND "

[@PaoloMiller-ow3vf]

Going February 4th

[@GenX_US_Marine]

What's funny is when I went through boot camp in 97 these recruits probably weren't born yet and the DI's were probably still in diapers.

[@malabarspyder]

How did some of the platoons have SP4 in BASIC? Maybe Prior Service?

[@shinyamada488]

Bachelor's Degree

[@Hufflepux]

How much of this is accurate?

[@swagmastersugre21]

Graduated on nov 6th from there that civilian barber is rude af

[@cfuqua]

Why they heads down on the bus??

[@TannerGlattli]

So you don’t see where you’re going.

[@carlcounts1]

As soon as I arrived at reception at Fort Jackson in 1989 I wanted to go home. I tried to fake asthma but it didn't work. When I got to AIT at Fort Gordon I played crazy until they finally let me out. The week I was processing out I literally had 100s of guys begging me to tell them how to get out.

[@jse.reyess515]

Then why go…😐

[@carlcounts1]

@ because the economy was very bad then and most people went in because they couldn’t find a job

[@jollthebro]

You admitted your act of cowardice pretty easily, I would've taken this information to the grave.

[@carlcounts1]

@ I agree.

[@chuckm869]

They look good 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@jessebaldovino491]

The haircuts look so gentle compared to marine corp boot camp

[@WydYexi]

It’s a haircut dawg

[@mariesmith6332]

That's NIC night

[@armanibrown5446]

We didn't do the combat stuff because the drill sergeant said they had way too many injuries and we had to wear ipro 24/7

[@ArroyoJ5685]

Eyepro*

[@Alejandro091]

Type shi, fun times but bct was rlly ez

[@Alejandro091]

3-34 Charly company 2nd platoon, the rock the rock leads the way

[@armanibrown5446]

@@ArroyoJ5685 💀 really....

[@armanibrown5446]

@@Alejandro091 speaking of rock one of our platoon drill sergeants made his platoon grab rocks on the way to lunch and keep them then he made them throw the rocks just to run and grab them and say I love you to them

[@freddybee9070]

Paraaaaaade

[@dsandman272]

Black dudes wasting camo, when I was in Drill said if your as black as this guy you need no camo 😂

[@trymacs4511]

Combatives are no longer taught in basic

[@everettblue146]

R u serious..?

[@larrywilliams7100]

TRAINING WITH FEMALES NOW..not back in my boot camp days..Ft. Knox Ky. 1989. UNBELIEVABLE

[@KennyVeach1992]

I went to FT.JACKSON ( 2020 ) they train together but for the most part the males and females were separated

[@ktal888]

Males and females should never train together but the females should have to shave their heads just like the males.

[@JB-ys8mj]

1986 Ft McClellan Military Police OSUT was coed

[@larrywilliams7100]

Damn we road in cattle cars standing up back during my boot camp days 1989..NOT BUSES 🚌 OR we Marched everywhere, or in the back of trucks 🚚. UNBELIEVABLE what our US ARMY and military has become. 😮😅

[@MissAfilliate]

What's so unbelievable about having vehicles for transportation in 2024? They're still marching and going through training, and I'm sure they're working just as hard as you did in 1989.

[@ignazelvonstadion105]

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